I’ve heard comments that this type of video seems disjointed and without a coherent story. But I like the style. I think this is fun, engaging and stylish.

State of the Internet
http://www.vimeo.com/9641036

Today I published a new explanatory video about critical thinking called “Do You Think?”

Noticing increasing societal polarization, especially political, where people are bombarded with “facts” and opinions by pundits and experts, I’ve felt frustrated that so many people choose to blindly follow their pundit of choice like rats following the Pied Piper, without really thinking [...]

More good feedback from people on this on the VizThink forum. Through discussion on that forum, I realized I’d blundered. The original graphic I did was just trying to show the difference between getting ideas out of people’s head vs getting ideas into people’s heads. In the Dan Roam lexicon, it was a “what” problem [...]

After getting good comments from Tom and Tom and Christine, plus Ryan Coleman in the VizThink forum about the Visual Thinking and Ideas post, I thought I’d revise the graphic for it. Results below:

It’s pretty cool living with someone else who’s also a visual thinker. Just had lunch with my wife and we were discussing visual thinking and VizThink ’08, specifically some of the differences between the work of people like David Sibbet who do a lot of graphic facilitation, and information designers like Karl Gude who create [...]

Came across a reference to the book, Visual Communication: Images with Messages by Paul Martin Lester. Looks pretty good, but at over $100 for a new edition, I won’t be ordering that very soon. However, I also came across Lester’s course notes. He’s a professor in the Department of Communication at Cal [...]